High Fat and High Blood Pressure: Fiction of Fact?

by Christian Goodman | Apr 6, 2012 | 17 comments

High fat diets have been targeted as unhealthy and a serious cause of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks and strokes for over 30 years now. Lately however, there has been great dispute over if this is actually true or not. A new study from the...

What Causes Stroke and Heart Attack… Really!

by Christian Goodman | Apr 3, 2012 | 42 comments

One minute he was walking ahead of me on a 10 miles hike, cursing me (jokingly) for being lazy and dragging behind, the next, he was lying down holding his chest in agony. That’s how I experienced my favorite uncle’s heart attack when I was 10 years old. And that’s...

Amino Acid Helps Protect Heart From Cholesterol

by Scott Davis | Mar 26, 2012 | 10 comments

Eating large quantities of the amino acid taurine – obtained mostly from poultry rich diet – may help promote heart health and shield the cardiovascular system from cholesterol-related damage. This research, conducted by NYU Langone Medical Center scientists, tested...

The One Supplement That Cures Everything – Maybe!

by ShellyManning | Mar 17, 2012 | 57 comments

Being a fan of natural health, you’ve probably heard the terms Antioxidant and Oxidization. Some natural health “experts” have been swearing by this concept to cure pretty much anything from arthritis to cancer and heart attack. As always, when a new “magic cure” is...

The Complicated Issue of Fats

by Scott Davis | Mar 10, 2012 | 21 comments

Few types of nutrition have had as much controversy around them as dietary fat- cursed by some as the source of all evil while praised by others as a healthy and necessary substance. What makes this issue so complicated is how many TYPES of fat are out there. Some of...

B-Vitamin Boost for “Good” Cholesterol

by Scott Davis | Mar 9, 2012 | 15 comments

The B-vitamin niacin may be important for maintaining high levels of good HDL cholesterol, reports a new study University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville found. HDL cholesterol is important because it helps clear out cholesterol build up in arteries....